The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest
Peary in his heyday as the Great Gildersleeve
Willard Waterman and Stephanie Griffin in the TV series The Great Gildersleeve, 1955
Lillian Randolph as Birdie on the TV version (1955)
Fibber McGee and Molly was a longtime American husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
The Great Gildersleeve
…history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode (number 216) of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character…
Fibber McGee and Molly with Ted Weems and his Orchestra broadcasting from Chicago in 1937.
The other cast members circa 1939.
A character shot of Fibber and Molly, 1937.
Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, at a Victory Bond rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in 1945. Note sound effects men and equipment at right.